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— The top 20 movies at U.S.

and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday - excluding the numbers from Wednesday and Thursday last week - followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.

com are: 1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, Summit, $43,641,448, 4,070 locations, $10,723 average, $227,366,118, two weeks.

  1. Skyfall, MGM/Columbia, $35,502,973, 3,526 locations, $10,069 average, $221,144,122, three weeks.

  2. Lincoln, Disney, $25,676,413, 2,018 locations, $12,724 average, $62,840,796, three weeks.

  3. Rise of the Guardians, Paramount, $23,773,465, 3,653 locations, $6,508 average, $32,341,090, one week.

  4. Life of Pi, 20th Century Fox, $22,451,514, 2,927 locations, $7,670 average, $30,573,101, one week.

  5. Wreck-It Ralph, Disney, $16,572,669, 3,259 locations, $5,085 average, $149,278,699, four weeks.

  6. Red Dawn, FilmDistrict, $14,276,668, 2,725 locations, $5,239 average, $21,689,162, one week.

  7. Flight, Paramount, $8,451,144, 2,638 locations, $3,204 average, $74,718,990, four weeks.

  8. Silver Linings Playbook,Weinstein Co., $4,383,669, 367 locations, $11,945 average, $6,209,767, two weeks.

  9. Argo, Warner Bros., $3,865,158, 1,255 locations, $3,080 average, $98,062,309, seven weeks.

  10. Taken 2, 20th Century Fox, $950,043, 763 locations, $1,245 average, $136,477,003, eight weeks.

  11. Anna Karenina, Focus, $896,258, 66 locations, $13,580 average, $1,534,832, two weeks.

  12. The Sessions, 20th Century Fox, $724,025, 515 locations, $1,406 average, $3,929,999, six weeks.

  13. Pitch Perfect, Universal, $715,865, 492 locations, $1,455 average, $62,571,928, nine weeks.

  14. Jab Tak Hai Jaan, Yash Raj Films, $536,918, 164 locations, $3,274 average, $3,047,539, two weeks.

  15. Here Comes the Boom, Columbia, $507,814, 490 locations, $1,036 average, $42,037,240, seven weeks.

  16. Cloud Atlas, Warner Bros., $422,095, 258 locations, $1,636 average, $25,788,857, five weeks. 18. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Summit, $392,766, 242 locations, $1,623 average, $16,323,537, 10 weeks.

  17. Hotel Transylvania, Columbia, $377,389, 464 locations, $813 average, $143,500,130, nine weeks.

  18. Looper, Columbia, $300,438, 293 locations, $1,025 average, $65,587,055, nine weeks.

MovieStyle, Pages 36 on 11/30/2012

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